The article mentions that CBS will televise every UGA vs. Florida game for the next 15 years. The SEC and the schools agreed to this in order to avoid playing the Cocktail Party at night.

Also interesting:

CBS has two doubleheaders and will use them Oct. 10 and Nov. 14. The network gets the first two picks Oct. 10 — Aresco labels the Florida-LSU game a “99 percenter” for prime time — and has the first and third or fourth pick Nov. 14.

Based on that info and the projections included in the article, I'd put our estimated TV schedule for 2009 as:

Date

Opponent

TVNetwork

KickoffTime

Confirmed?

Sept. 5

at Oklahoma St.

ESPN/ABC

Night

Estimated

Sept. 12

vs. South Carolina

ESPN2/ESPNU

Twilight

Estimated

Sept. 19

at Arkansas

ESPN2/ESPNU

Night

Estimated

Sept. 26

vs. Arizona State*

CBS

3:30

Estimated

Oct. 3

vs. LSU

CBS

3:30

Estimated

Oct. 10

at Tennessee**

ESPN2/ESPNU

Night

Estimated

Oct. 17

at Vanderbilt

ESPN Regional

Noonish

Estimated

Oct. 24

BYE WEEK

Oct. 31

vs. Florida (Jax)

CBS

3:30

Yes

Nov. 7

vs. Tenn. Tech

PPV

1:00

Estimated

Nov. 14

vs. Auburn***

ESPN

Night

Estimated

Nov. 21

vs. Kentucky

ESPN2/ESPNU

Twilight

Estimated

Nov. 28

at Georgia Tech

ABC

3:30

Estimated

When the games get confirmed, I'll update this chart.

* ASU at UGA - Could be a night game if ESPN prefers Ole Miss at South Carolina; however, I'd wager that CBS would like a cross regional game.

I havent been able to confirm this, but I heard have after back to back night games in 07 against Ok St and SC, that the ACC police had an agreement with the University for only 1 night game a year. Appearantly the Athens police thought it was too hard to police Athens for a night game (even though other schools do it all the time).

From what I've read, the Raycom games will be replace with something called ESPN Regional, which will essentially be the next in the line of Raycom/JP/LF (same games, same times, same stations, hopefully better quality). All other conference games (and perhaps some non-conf) will be televised on ESPNU. ESPN wants to put those games in primetime, but I don't know if that's been finalized.

I believe the original agreement goes back to the late 70s, and was between former Mayor Carmine DePesto and Dean Vernon Woermer. There was a bit of a problem with the homecoming parade that year, if I recall correctly, however.

Just to clarify something. If ESPN runs things like they have in the past, there is no channel called "ESPN Regional." Rather, ESPN provides the content (game coverage) and syndicates it out to local stations. Same as with JP/Raycom/Lincoln Financial. (ESPN has provided football and basketball games for years in the Big East area and Big 10 area (pre-Big 10 channel) in this fashion.)

DirecTV includes the U in the sports package... which if you aren't getting that during the football season at least... well, I do and it's great because when I get home from the Georgia game, I can count on a 10 pm Pac10 snoozer to lull me to sleep on Fox West or Northwest or LA or whatever.